Popular Artificial Sweetener Appears to Make Blood 'Stickier', Linked to Stroke Risk

Science Alert ^ | 01 March 2023 | By CLARE WATSON

[gnarledmaw]

For the “its safe for keto” crowd, I told you so.

[ConservativeMind]

Unfortunately, they don’t list removal of confounders, but there is an apparent mechanism of potential clot encouragement.

I don’t see this is a biggie, as erythritol is GRAS and already exists in our bodies.

[tlozo]

However, because people in the study already had a lot of cardiovascular risk factors, it's hard to generalize the study findings to healthy populations.

[ConservativeMind]

Also, the people they looked at were probably reducing sugars to help with critical health issues.

Again, not removing confounding variables makes this a trash study.

[teeman8r]

it’s not the clot shot, but the sack of sugar...

[COSIllinois]

But WHO OK’d it for the Market WITHOUT these finding? THE FDA?????

[Varda]

Erythritol isn’t found in the low carb foods I eat. I’ve mostly seen it in diabetic candies. The couple times I’ve tried it, it was no mas for me!

[Burma Jones]

Pay no attention to the syringe behind the curtain!!

[metmom]

But it’s not the vax.

Anything but the vax.

[Roadrunner383]

Name brand is Truvia. Never knowingly tried it.

[knarf]

THAT's what I was looking for.

I'm a newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic and I have Truvia as well as a WalMart generic . . . I'll check them out.

But the questions remains . . . What DO diabetics do for sweetener ?

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Never touch the stuff. Gives me nasty headaches.

[dfwgator]

I believe it’s also called “Swerve”.

[Pox]

I've made milk chocolate from erythritol that you would find indistinguishable from milk chocolate made from cane sugar.

I also have Factor V Leiden, so this actually concerns me a bit.

[HandBasketHell]

They found the fall guy for the clot shot.

[Varda]

I’ve seen Truvia but also have never bought any. I’ll stick with sucralose since I haven’t had a bad reaction to that.

[BipolarBob]

I’ll stick with saccharin, the old time favorite.

[dfwgator]

Good old cyclamates for me!

[BipolarBob]

if it was good enough for grandpa (God rest his soul), it’s good enough for me.